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Green Roof Shelters
Photo by Lisa Lee Benjamin

Green Roof Shelters

Lisa Lee Benjamin & John Little (Urban Hedgerow)

A collaboration between San Francisco’s Lisa Lee Benjamin and “a team of inventive, kooky Brits,” Green Roof Shelters explores what is possible to create from our existing resources. This prototype is one of a planned series of designed habitats made expressly for insects and birds.


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